Patents Examined by Tony Davis
  • Patent number: 9811315
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting location related information after a user arrives at a place. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, information presentation begins. In other aspects, when a user shakes a device or says certain words to a device, and then gazes at it, a presentation starts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
  • Patent number: 9804673
    Abstract: A method of making a touch-sensitive data entry screen of the kind arranged to provide haptic response to a user via at least one electromechanical exciter coupled to the screen, comprising analyzing the mechanical and electromechanical coupled system represented by the data entry screen and the at least one exciter, and selecting values of parameters of the coupled system to provide a required displacement and acceleration of the screen at low frequency in response to human touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: NVF TECH LTD.
    Inventors: Martin Colloms, Timothy Christopher Johnson Whitwell
  • Patent number: 9804670
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an infrared outputter configured to output infrared light toward a user, an image capturer configured to photograph the user to generate a captured image, and a controller configured to detect, from the captured image, a pupil and an iris of the user, and a glint area generated by the infrared light, and to determine, in response to the pupil, the iris, and the glint area being detected, a direction of the user's gaze based on a relation between a location of the pupil, and the glint area, and a size of the iris.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-han Kim, In-Ho Choi, Tae-hwa Hong, Hong-il Kim, Joo-young Son
  • Patent number: 9807213
    Abstract: An electronic device (100) includes a housing (101), one or more processors (116), and a display (102). The display, housing, and other components are flexible, stretchable, squeezable, or otherwise deformable in one or more embodiments. One or more flex sensors (156) are operable with the one or more processors, as is a gravity sensor such as an accelerometer (152). The one or more processors can detect (303) a bending operation (301) with the one or more flex sensors that deforms one or more of the housing or the display into a deformed geometry (402). The one or more sensors can then determine a gravity direction (503) with the gravity sensor, after the bending operation and operate (602) the electronic device in a predefined mode of operation (705) as a function of both the deformed geometry and the gravity direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Elliot M. Stewart
  • Patent number: 9791947
    Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device, including: a display unit; a touch panel to simultaneously detect touch operations carried out with fingers to a display surface of the display unit; a finger shape detecting unit to detect a shape of a contact part of the finger, which contacts to the display surface in each of the touch operations; and a control unit to control display contents of the display unit, wherein when the touch operations are simultaneously detected by the touch panel, the control unit judges whether the touch operations are an operation carried out by one operator or are operations carried out by a plurality of operators in accordance with the shape of the contact part of the finger relating to each touch operation, and changes the display contents of the display unit in accordance with a result of judging the touch operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA INC.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 9792300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting location related information after a user arrives at a place. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, information presentation begins. In another aspect, when a user shakes a standby device and then gazes at it, a presentation starts. Location related info may be sorted and presented by the pointing direction of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
  • Patent number: 9791969
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of wirings. Each of the plurality of first electrodes has a first portion formed on a layer different from that on which the second electrodes are formed and intersecting the second electrodes, and a second portion formed on the same layer as that on which the second electrodes are formed, but separated from the second electrode. The second electrode and the second portion of the first electrode are formed on a layer different than the layer where the wiring is formed. The first portion of the first electrode is connected to the second portion through a contact portion formed in an insulating film made of a negative resist between the first portion and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Teramoto
  • Patent number: 9787995
    Abstract: A source driver, a driving circuit using the same and a display apparatus using the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller and a source driver. The timing controller is configured to receive an external image signal to provide a compressed image signal. The source driver is configured to receive the compressed image signal, and has a decompressor configured to convert the compressed image signal into restored image data and provide a plurality of source driving signals to drive the display panel according to a plurality of display data of the restored image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventors: Chu-Ya Hsiao, Han-Ying Chang
  • Patent number: 9782060
    Abstract: A medical system includes: a plurality of monitors each configured to display a video signal of a different type; a touch panel configured to display an operation screen where a selecting operation is performed; a video output discrimination portion configured to discriminate a monitor capable of displaying the video signal of the peripheral device for which the selecting operation is performed by referring to a table in which the peripheral device is associated with the monitor capable of displaying the video signal; a data holding portion configured to hold a monitor identification video for identifying the monitor capable of displaying the video signal and information on the corresponding monitor; and a peripheral device control portion configured to perform control so as to display the monitor identification video held in the data holding portion on the discriminated monitor, depending on a discrimination result of the video output discrimination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iori Nemoto, Kiyoshi Sekiguchi, Yorito Maeda, Takayuki Katsuyama
  • Patent number: 9772713
    Abstract: A display device is connectable to a plurality of electronic pens and has a screen on which information is displayed in accordance with inputs from a plurality of electronic pens and a touch input. The display device includes a touch detection sensor, a wireless communication section, a display controller, and a touch panel controller. The touch detection sensor detects a touch on the screen. The wireless communication section receives signals from the plurality of electronic pens connected. The display controller determines a distance between at least two electronic pens out of the plurality of electronic pens connected, from the signals received via the wireless communication section. The touch panel controller enables or disables a function of the touch detection sensor based on the above determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Mori, Takuya Nishimura, Yasuo Masuda
  • Patent number: 9772711
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a first gesture on a touch screen, dividing a display region of the touch screen into two or more regions according to the first gesture, detecting a second gesture originating in one of the two or more divided regions, and displaying the second gesture according to a region attribute of the one region and the second gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Min Park, Kyung-Tae Kim, Seung-Eun Lee, Eun-Jung Hyun
  • Patent number: 9766758
    Abstract: An operation device includes a detecting portion that detects an operation performed on an operation surface and outputs a detection value, and a computing portion that includes a first threshold for determining whether or not an operation is performed on the operation surface and a second threshold more than the first threshold, and operates such that a detection point calculated based on a second detection value acquired from the detecting portion is replaced by a detection point calculated based on a first detection value acquired from the detecting portion when the second detection value is a value between the first and second thresholds, the first detection value being more than the second threshold and being acquired before the second detection value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9757651
    Abstract: A method of processing a user input by an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal from an auxiliary electronic device, providing application information related to the auxiliary electronic device based on the signal, and identifying a program configured to receive a control signal transmitted from the auxiliary electronic device based on the application information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaeyoung Song, Jinho Jang, Ilgeun Bok, Sungjun Kim, Hyukgoo Lee, Wooseong Choi
  • Patent number: 9761158
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a specification unit configured to, from a multi-screen display corresponding to multi-screen displays performed by a plurality of projection apparatuses, specify an overlapping region in which first and second projection regions for first and second projection apparatuses overlap; a determination unit configured to, based on the positions of the overlapping regions in the first and second projection regions, determine luminance correction coefficients corresponding to the overlapping region such that the luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a first vertex in the overlapping region and a luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a second vertex located diagonally opposite to the first vertex in the overlapping region are different; and a correction unit configured to correct luminance of image data for the multi-screen display, based on the determined correction coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 9753488
    Abstract: A body (1, 1?, 1?) produced by an in-mold process has a first film (2, 2?, 2?) with at least one electrical or electronic functional layer (25). In a functional area (20a, 20a?, 20a?) of this functional layer, at least one electrical or electronic component is provided, and at least one electrical connection for this is provided in a contact area (20b, 20b?, 20b?). The first film is partially back-injection molded with a plastic main material (3, 3?, 3?) such that the contact area (20b, 20b?, 20b?) is at least partially free from this plastic main material (3). Suitable formation of the first film (2, 2?, 2?) guarantees that a tab (F) separated from the plastic main material (3, 3?, 3?) is provided which adjoins a back-injection molded part of the first film in an area of surface (20c, 20c?, 20c?) of the body which is at a distance from an edge (31, 31?) of the body delimiting the surface (30) with the first film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO, KG, POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hahn, Wolfgang Clemens, Rainer Sigritz, Ulrich Schindler, Gerald Golling
  • Patent number: 9754537
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a scan driver progressively supplying a scan signal to scan lines, a data driver supplying data signals to output lines of the data driver during a period in which the scan signal is supplied, and demultiplexers respectively coupled to the output lines of the data driver, and supplying the data signals to data lines, each demultiplexer including first switches, each first switch being coupled between an output line of the data driver and a data line among a first set of data lines, and a second switch coupled between a first initialization power source and a data line among a second set of data lines, wherein the first set of data lines includes the second set of data lines and at least one other data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-Eup Lee, Hyoung-Sik Moon
  • Patent number: 9753580
    Abstract: A projector includes a position detection unit and a calibration control unit. The calibration control unit executes first calibration relevant to a manipulation position of an indicator performing a manipulation on a screen, and second calibration relevant to a manipulation position of an indicator performing a manipulation on the screen. Then, the calibration control unit provides a user interface allowing indication of whether or not the second calibration is to be executed after the first calibration is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kubota
  • Patent number: 9747018
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an object are provided. Motions of fingers present in a 3-dimensional (3D) sensing area are detected, and a pointer or an object being displayed is controlled corresponding to the detected motions. Therefore, input of a control signal may be achieved without a direct touch on a display device such as a terminal, thereby preventing leaving marks on a screen of the display. In addition, since the motions of fingers are detected within the 3D sensing area, not on a 2-dimensional (2D) plane, more types of input motions may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Joon Ah Park, Hyung Kew Lee
  • Patent number: 9747838
    Abstract: A pixel may include an organic light emitting diode (OLED) with a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor with a first electrode coupled to a data line, with a second electrode coupled to a first node, the first transistor being turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line, a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a third power source to charge a first capacitor voltage corresponding to a data signal supplied from the data line, and a pixel circuit charged by the first capacitor voltage to supply current corresponding to a charged first power source voltage from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chul-Kyu Kang
  • Patent number: 9747856
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines extended in a first direction, a plurality of common electrodes extended in the first direction, a gate scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the gate lines, and a common scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the common electrodes. The common scanning circuit includes a shift register unit, an interconnection connecting unit, and a switch unit. The gate scanning circuit and the common scanning circuit are configured of single channel thin film transistors. The gate scanning circuit is disposed between the shift register unit and the interconnection connecting unit, and the interconnection connecting unit is disposed between the gate scanning circuit and the switch unit in a planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Abe